I thought these were worth saving on here.  The cast looks much smoother than a Furphy.

http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/Photo/Norvil/nor1.JPG

http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/Photo/Norvil/nor2.JPG

http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/Photo/Norvil/nor3.JPG

http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/Photo/Norvil/nor4.JPG

http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/Photo/Norvil/nor5.JPG

You can find the still operating Norvil Foundry by a simple Google search.

KD

Good looking CO
Legs look long and sturdy enough..
Just don't like the look of that cheap add-on after handle on the lid.
JMHO
Aart

I did think of that to Aart but dunno if it's an add on or just a rough cast.

it is much easier to cast a "blind" handle, than it is to do the traditional "loop".

To do the loop, they must push two tappered "cores" through the pattern & meet up in the middle (that's why most handles have that seam or "Join" in the middle)
Then after "Ramming" the sand, these cores are carefully extracted back through the pattern before removing the pattern from the sand, leaving a void to be filled by the moltern metal to form a "loop"

The "lug" type handle above, is just that, a lug on the pattern & it is permanently attached to the pattern, so when the pattern is extracted from the sand it leaves a solid lug shaped void instead of a hollow core type void.

Note:- a pattern is normally a woodern "dummy" of the thing you are casting, it is imbedded in the sand, one side at a time then removed & the two sides of the sand box brought back together to form "the mould" with the "void" between them to be filled with CI.

try to picture a sand box (two halves) with the "camp oven" as air space inside the sand!!

Cheers, Mick.

A few dollars and a Norvil Foundry Ballarat Lawson kettle were exchanged today in a car park in a Toowoomba Shopping Centre.  A very heavy item in the Harding style with an interesting handle.
The 5 notches under the handle must have been to hang from a fireplace crane perhaps, but what is the hole on the top for?
All comments appreciated.

KD

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BBC nailed it, I have a Norvil that I bought directly from the foundry several years ago, it has the tab type handle on the lid which the foundry had drilled a hole in before sending it, a real rough oven poorly cast with a lid that doesn't fit properly, it cost me $120.
Not happy Jan.


pd

PD would they have changed, I only ask because I wouldnt mind making a trip to have a look if it was worth it upon my way to Castmaine, Ballarat is only 40 mins away

Michaelb wrote on Jan 5^th, 2010 at 4:18pm:

upon my way to Castmaine

Could this mean more Billmans??? :-?
cheers George :-X

Another photo of a Norville to add to the history section.
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac341/KingsthorpeDavid/campoven_zps5a5ddd23.jpg

Recently I spent some time in Ballarat. While there I drove past the old Norvil Foundry so stopped and took a couple of photos.
All that is left is the one shed at the rear of the  huge yard. A local told me that once the whole yard was full of buildings and that the foundry produced a enormous range of items.
http://s6.postimg.org/ag1tkukgx/DSC_0013_6.jpg
http://s6.postimg.org/5svrj2x41/DSC_0016_3.jpg

Good to have the photos in here. It would have been a big place in its day.

Jeff

Good to see those photos again Rory.  I think Rob still has one of there camp ovens.